Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1887-07-15

The Ladies' Auxiliary of the Y. NJ. c.
A. will hold meeting next Tuesday
evening at o'clock in the Association
room

Rev. b. +. Bausmann will return
from Pennsylvania this week and hold
services in Shepherdstown Sunday
morning, and at Kearneysville in the
afternoon.
The average Shepherdstown boy can
swim like fish, and no worder, for they
spend about half their time in the river.
Boys not more than eight years old can
swim across the Potomac and return.
Mr.. David Hunter, n former citizen
of this county, and father of Mayor G.
o. Lambert, of Martinsburg, died week
before last in Martinsburg. His re-
mains were taken to Middleway for in
terment.
The Shenandoah Valley Railroad will
run an excursion to Pen. Mar next FRI
day, July 22d. The train leaves Shep-
herdstown at 7.20 a. m. and returns at
4.40 o. m. The fare for the round trip
is 20 cents.
Joe Cephas, a young colored man of
this town who suddenly and unaccount-
ably lost his mind, has been taken to
the Insane Asylum at Weston. He is
perfectly harmless, but his mind seems
to have become utterly blank.
Mr.. John w. Avirett, manager of the
Millville Milling Company, of this
county, has resigned that position, and
will return to Cumberland and assume
the management of the Times and other
growing newspapers in which he is in
terested.
The Shenandoah Valley passenger
train due here. north bound, at 9.15
Monday night did not arrive until
Tuesday morning. 1t is said that there
was an accident near Berryville, but Of
course no positive information can be
obtained.
At recent meeting of Samaritan
Lodge No 30, |. o. o. F., held at Lee
town, the following officers were elected
for the ensuing term: Geo. d. johnson,
~. W. cllolHSi cuyhci, E W. ; wv lie
Ramsburg, Secy.; ard j. j. Ramsburg,
Treasurer.
Mr.. George Duke has sold the small
office building on his recently purchased
lot to Mr.. John II. Snyder, who has
moved it to his lot, adjoining the resi-
dence of Mr.. John Schoppert. Mr..
Snyder will convert the building into a
dwelling house.
Frederick Becker, young man of
Martinsburg, while returning from
bath last Saturday morning, fell be-
tween the cars on the Baltimore q Ohio
Railroad and had his left leg severed
from his body and his left leg man
gled. His injuries will probably prove
fatal.
As will be seen by advertisement in
another column, Messrs. John I. Glib
son and Cleon Moore, Agents, will sell
sixty acres of land, near Shenandoah
junction, being part of the estate of
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House in Charlestown, next Thursday,
the 2l.t instant.
The Spirit Of Jefferson rather boast
fully reports 303 deeds and other instru-
ments of writing recorded in the Coun-
ty Clerks office TOR the six months end
ing June 30th, 1887, but uncle John
Boyer, our Deputy Clerk, says he can
beat that record, having transcribed 1874
in the same time MartinSbmg States
man.
The railroad bridge will soon be conn
pleted. The last iron span-the one on
the Virginia shore-is in place. The
main work yet to be done is the remov-
ing of the trestling, which is taken to
pieces on the edge of the river and
haulded up to the station by wagons,
where it is to be loaded on ears and
sent away.
Work on Hotel Hamilton, the new
building in course of erection by ex-
Gov. Hamilton, in Hagerstown, is going
forward as rapidly as can be accom-
plished by the large force Of hands at
il. 1t is the intention of the contractors
to complete the building in time for &C.
cupancy during the approaching agri-
cultural fair, which will be held the
latter part of October.
The Town Council of Charestown
has laid the levy for 1887, as follows:
Thirty cents Oh each 800 of real and
peIs onal property, and $3.50 capitation
tax; tax on dogs $l.00 and on bitches
$500. The assessment: of property in
the town shows the value of real estate
to be $40, $50. and personally S494, 275;
total, 1885 ,230-increase of nearly
S35 900 over last year. Number of cap
itations, 5l9; dogs, 1913, gips, ..
The Charlestown Free Press says: A
workman on the Valley Division of the
Baltimore aud Ohio Railroad says that
on Friday last, whilst laying track be-
low Millville, the rails were so heated
by the sun that the men could not han
die them with ungloyed hands. They
tried 10 use dock leaves and the heat
burned the leaves to c.isp. He had
been many years railroad building, but
never knew anything like that before.
The attention of our readers is called
this week to the advertisement Of Mr..
Towner Schley, the live fertilizer man.
He presents large array of names of
the farmers of this locality who are
using with the greatest satisfaction the
goods he sells, and such endorsement
cannot fail 10 have great influence.